St. Paul daily globe., 1887-11-18
ADEM0N IN DURANGO.
Johann Most Placed Under Ar
rest by the New York
Police.
He Believes in Anarchy and
Derides the Sanetity Of
Marriage.
A Hartford, Conn.,, Parson
A Hartford, Conn.,, Parson
Compares the Chicago
Gang With Christ.
Parsons Old Paper, The Alarm
Resumes Publication--An-
other Lingg Letter.

NEW YORK, Nov. 17.-Johann Most,
the anarchist. was arrested at noon to-
day at the Office of his newspaper by
Detective SergeantS Crowley and Nc
Guire, of Inspector Byrnes' staff. He
was taken directly to police head
quarters and through the aldermen's
gate and locked up in one of the cells in
the basement. His arrest was made by
direction of Inspector Byrnes on war
rant issued by Judge Cowing to day for
having made an incendiary speech cal
eulated to incite a riot, on last Friday
night, i'll hall on Seventh street. The
warrant was made returnable before
Justice Cowing. As early as last
Wednesday Supt. Murray intimated to
his captains that they should take par
ticuar pains in watching the move
ments of anarchists in this city. especi-
ally during the excitement attending
the hanging of the anarchists in Chi
cago on Friday and the funeral on Suu-
day: On THURSDAY night was the
all the reserves were on duty.
Later that night Supt. Murray issued
special orders to captains to follow all
the movements of all anarchists
and to report to him any meeting they
were likely to hold. On Saturday night
a wake was to be held by the anarchists
in Florence hall, on Second avenue. but
Capt. McCullagh succeeded in getting
his officers there before the socialists
arrived and made the place decidedly
uncomfortable for the malcontents.
But while this was going Oh Johann
Most, with
HIS COMPANION, LENA FISHER.
was attending an anarchists meeting in
Seventh street. After the audience got
we'll warmed up Most himself made a
speech, which was particularly blood
curdling in character. Unfortunately
for Most, Patrolmen Rott and Seehs, Of
the Fourteenth district, were there in
civilians dress, taking notes. These
memoranda were brought TO Supt.
Murray and laid before him, and on
Monday search was begun for the an
'arcfnSt. HewaS not to be found. There
was every reason to believe that he
had left the jurisdiction of the state
and was i'll hiding somewhere. Then
the shrewdneSS of Inspector Byrnes
came into play. He knew that if
he made public the guarding of the DO
lice, Most would naturally learn of it,
and he would stay out of the city indef-
ipitely. So he kept his mouth sealed and
allowed the excitement Of the search for
Most to die out. The bait was well used.
Most thought the trouble was gone by.
and yesterday he came back to the citv
and went to work with his paper Mr.
ByrneS was informed OF this. and early
this morning he went before the district
attorney and presented the evidence he
had obtained against Most, of his incen-
diarism, and asked that the grand jury
find an Indictment against him. The in
Spector and seven witnesses gave testi-
mOny. and an Indictment was found. In
the meanwhile Most had been arrested
Most insists that he did not use the Ian
guage attributed to him by the police.
As this is the second time he has been
arrested for making violent speeches he
will probably get the full extent of the
law, which is one years Imprisonment
and a fine.
INSPECTOR BYRNES
talked with Most subsequently. The
latter said that the execution of the Chi
cagO anarchists was an outrage. He
tMoSD had become imbued with the an
archistic principles. when boy. He
worked at boOkbinding and noticed that
all the money went to the bosses. He
believed that the WOrkmen should have
things in their own hands and divide
the profits of work. He did not believe
in marriage vows. Men and women
should be able to live together if they
wanted. He said that he might not en-
courage violence directly. but if the
wOrkingmen could not have what they
wanted, no fault would be found with |
any person using dynamite. 1t was
nonsense to say that Lingg was con-
yerted to anarchy by his (MOst's) writ
ings, for he was an anarchist in Ger
many. He claimed that the reports of !
his speech Saturday, which appeared in
the papers, were false I'm every partlcu- |
lar. There was conspiracy OH the |
part of certain people TO get rid of him. |
Bail will be asked for him tomorrow. |
The Indictment under which Most was |
charges misdemeanor. In the |
document the arch anarchist is char |
acterized as ian evil disposed and per- |
niei0us person, and OF most wicked and |
disposition. wickedly and ma
cOntriving to disturb the public |
peace, and to excite the good citizens of |
cur said state to hatred and contempt of |
the government and make insurrec-
afo